It's Time

Do you ever feel like there is so much to do and either so much time or so little time to do it in?  That's how I'm feeling right now.  Maybe I wouldn't have to worry about "so little time" if I would just get motivated to do the stuff in the "so much time."  However, there are some things that can only be done at certain times.  As I look ahead to the things that need to be done then, I get tired and think, "I should rest since tomorrow is going to be so busy," thus pushing today's TO DO list to another day. 

When I was little I loved to read the books by Stephen Cosgrove in the series called Serendipity.  He wrote favorites like Leo the Lop, Morgan Morning, and yes, Serendipity.  My grandparents would record themselves reading them onto tape and mail the book and tape to me.  I would play the tape on my own little tape player and hear their voices even when they were far away.  When I was old enough to read myself, they stopped recording, but I would still ask my mom to read them every once in awhile.  Then when my sister was little, she'd pull them from my bookshelf and ask me to read them to her.

I can remember one about a little princess whose father, the king, asked her to do something.  Her response to everything was, "I will, but just a little later."  I can still hear my mom reading those words in the princess' voice.  There is a whole series of events where she doesn't do what she is supposed to do right then and ends up in trouble--stuck on a lily pad in the middle of a pond kind of trouble.  Her unicorn is willing to help get her out of the pond, "but just a little later."  It is then that the princess realizes what she has been doing to everyone around her, she apologizes, the unicorn helps save her and she goes back to daydreaming--this time as the regular little girl that she is, whose regular dad asks her to clean her room.  She does it.

These books always ended with moral written in rhyme.  I don't remember what this book said at the end, but I feel like a little princess who needs to realize that the things I need to get done, while capable of being put off until "just a little later" need to get done now.  While there is still time--whether too much or too little.